My thing is, the older you get you gotta stand up for what you believe in, and keep bashin' away.

The real thing is the heart, you know the heart shouldn't be covered with concrete.

The powers that be are trying to meld, shape, and corral the culture of hip-hop into another speaking voice for the government.

Hip-hop is a part of rock & roll because it comes from DJ culture. DJ culture is the embodiment of all genres and all recorded music, if you actually pay attention to it.

Young people are having a hard time with what's reality and what's fantasy these days...We created discussion. It wasn't to create controversy for sale's sake, but rather it was my obligation to use the medium for discussion. Nobody's discussing the grown-up topics; they are faking and fronting.

I'd rather have a hundred thousand or a million people saying I'm nuts and I'm crazy for my musical choices and what I've said lyrically, than a million people all raising their hand on the first day.

Oh, America is slipping away from the rest of the consciousness of the planet - slipping away.